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Plenty of words are contractions or otherwise combinations of other words that you don't know about unless you're particularly interested in language. "Goodbye
by colechristensen 2y ago
Plenty of words are contractions or otherwise combinations of other words that you don't know about unless you're particularly interested in language.
"Goodbye" = "God be with ye" for example
You don't think "will not" when you say "won't", "won't" is just a word you use with a meaning you understand long before you can write.
- ang_cire 2y agoSee my other comment below, but all the things you're talking about work because English has a phonetic alphabet. You can break 'be with ye' into 'b', 'y', and 'e', and drop the rest. In languages like Chinese which do not have a phonetic writing system, you cannot drop individual sounds within a word/character in a rule-based way like contractions. Emojis are not a phonetic system, so unless you created an emoji for "they're", separate from the emojis for "they" and "are", you wouldn't have it as a word.